Shotcash — Springfield Bureau of Land Management
CW Volunteer field-checker in Shotcash sale, July 2018
About the sale: In May of 2018, the Upper Willamette Field Office of the BLM announced a plan to implement a clearcut-style “regeneration harvest” in the Shotgun Creek Recreation area. The area contains a heavily used OHV trail system, a public swimming hole and a system of walking and biking trails.
Our concerns: Clearcut-style logging, or “regeneration harvest” in healthy forest stands is not an ecologically sound practice from a science based or commonsense standpoint. The Shotcash project is in a well-loved recreation area containing healthy, mid-aged stands that do not need to be clearcut (as pictured). We are encouraging BLM to focus its efforts on thinning dense, young tree plantations that are in need of thinning.
Where is this sale in the process: Cascadia submitted scoping comments to the Upper Willamette BLM office in June of 2018. We participated in the Environmental Analysis public comment process and protested the sale in mid-2020. Our protest was denied, and we are now determining next steps.